How to Adjust Mixed Reality Visual Quality for Headset Display in Windows 10


Mixed reality blends real-world and virtual content into hybrid environments where physical and digital objects coexist and interact.

If the level of detail and quality of effects in your mixed reality home don’t look their best, you could try adjusting your headset's visual settings to ensure a comfortable mixed reality experience.

When Visual quality is set to Let Windows decide (automatic), it'll choose the best mixed reality experience for your PC. For an experience with more visual detail, set Visual quality to High. If your visuals are choppy, you may want to select a lower setting.

This tutorial will show you how to adjust the visual level of detail and quality of effects in the mixed reality home for the headset display on your Windows 10 PC.

You must be signed in as an administrator to adjust the visual quality of mixed reality on this PC.


Windows Mixed Reality is deprecated and will be removed in a future release of Windows. This deprecation includes the Mixed Reality Portal app, and Windows Mixed Reality for SteamVR and Steam VR Beta.



Contents

  • Option One: Adjust Visual Quality in Mixed Reality Home for Headset Display in Settings
  • Option Two: Adjust Visual Quality in Mixed Reality Home for Headset Display using REG file






OPTION ONE

Adjust Visual Quality in Mixed Reality Home for Headset Display in Settings


1 Open Settings, and click/tap on the Mixed reality icon.

2 Click/tap on Headset display on the left side. (see screenshot below)

3 Under Visual quality of my home on the right side, select Let Windows decide (default), Low, Medium, or High in the Adjust level of detail and quality of effects in the mixed reality home drop menu for what you want.

4 You can now close Settings if you like.

5 Close and reopen the Mixed Reality Portal app (if open) to apply.

Adjust Mixed Reality Visual Quality for Headset Display in Windows 10-mixed_reality_headset_visual_quality.jpg






OPTION TWO

Adjust Visual Quality in Mixed Reality Home for Headset Display using REG file


The downloadable .reg files below will modify the DWORD value in the registry key below.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Dwm\ExtendedComposition

ForceQualityLevel DWORD

<delete> = Automatic
0 = Low
1 = Medium
2 = High


1 Click/tap on the Download button below for the visual quality level you want.

Let_Windows_decide_headset_visual_quality_in_mixed_reality.reg

This is the default setting.

Download

OR

Low_headset_visual_quality_in_mixed_reality.reg

Download

OR

Medium_headset_visual_quality_in_mixed_reality.reg

Download

OR

High_headset_visual_quality_in_mixed_reality.reg

Download

2 Save the .reg file to your desktop.

3 Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

4 When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

5 You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.

6 Close and reopen the Mixed Reality Portal app (if open) to apply.


That's it,
Shawn


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